Diamond Distributors

Tom Spurgeon's Comics Reporter tells of how Diamond Distributors, which has a stranglehold on comic book distribution throughout the USA, will suspend shipping out books for the week of Dec 28 as it too closely coincides with Christmas holidays. Spurgeon finds all kinds of problems with this, all of which make sense, and he doesn't once have to bring up Diamonds monopoly to flesh out his list.

Batgirl 1970

Comic Book Personality Test

The online comic book personality test. Personality tests seem to be somewhat like a combination of actuary table statistics and astrology. The idea behind this online test is to match your personality traits against those of various famous comic book characters.

Periodic Table of Comics

The uky.edu site presents the periodic table of elements via comic books. An interesting way to organize the elements into a familiar frame of reference.

Marvel Comics Anniversary

Marvel Comics has hit number 70 anniversary years today (August 11, 2009) and is celebrating itself in various ways. You can read of it at the marvel web site: Marvel 70.

But with anything Marvel, I think of Jack Kirby and it makes such events sour.

John Ostrander

Long-time comic writer John Ostrander is battling glaucoma which has severly damaged his eyesight. Fans are encourage to help the effort to fund his medical costs at Comix-4-Sight

PHOTO SPLASH

Foto strip of 5 shots of large, beautiful muddy trucks plowing through deep water and goo.

Cover Redraw

The covered blogsite has a running gallery of comic book covers redrawn by contemporary artists. (Thanks to Rick Bradford's poopsheet for the notice) The gallery is a fascinating mixture of styles and covers re-imaged (sometimes imitative, sometimes wildly different). The artwork by Matthew Allison really stood out to me.

Miscellaneus Batgirl

Dirk Deppey

The comixology.com site has a good interview with Dirk Deppey, he of Fantagraphics editorial work. Deppey is probably best known for running one of the very best online comic book blogs (iJournalista).